Cinemagraph

Open Photoshop
Go to Windows—>Workspace—>Motion
Open your file
Go to Export—>Render Video
Format should be set to ‘Quicktime’
Preset should be ‘Best Quality Animation’
Render Options should be ‘Straight- Unmatted’
Go to File—>Import—>Video Frames to Layers
This window should pop up
Click on ‘Selected Range Only’
Move the markers to the portion that you want to use
Press ‘OK’
Go to Window—>Animation (if animation isn’t there, then click on ‘Timeline’)
Your screen should look similar to this
Your clip has been separated into different layers that correspond with the frames of the animation
Click on ‘Frame 1’ and press the space bar to watch the clip
Press the space bar again to stop the clip
Find the points in the clip that you want to be moving
For mine, I only want frames 1-47
I am going to click on frame 48 and hold my shift key down
I am going to click on frame 65
Frames 48-65 are now highlighted in blue
Find the trash icon
Click on the trash
Press ‘Yes’
Go to your layers panel
Click on frame 48
Press your shift key
Click on frame 65
Locate the trash icon on the bottom right of the layers panel
Click on the trash icon
Press ‘Yes’
Find the frame that you want to become the still (or static) part of the clip
I am using frame 25
I clicked on ‘Layer 25’ in the layers panel
Press ‘Command J’ to duplicate the layer
By default, it will name the new layer ‘Layer 25 copy’
Click and hold the new layer and drag it to the top of the layers panel
Double click on the ‘Layer 25 copy’ layer
Rename it ‘Static’
Click on your ‘Static’ layer
Add a layer mask to your ‘Static’ layer
Your layers panel should look like this:
Select the Brush Tool (B)
Make sure that the foreground color is black. If you press ‘X’ on your keyboard it will set it to either black or white. Press ‘X’ to switch it.
Click on the layer mask of the ‘Static’ layer
(make sure there is a rectangle around the mask and not the layer thumbnail)
Use the Brush Tool (B) to ‘erase’ the part that you want to move
If it doesn’t look like anything is disappearing, check your layers panel to see if any layers are visible. The only layer that should be visible is the ‘Static’ layer.
If you accidentally erase too much, you can change the foreground color to white (press x on the keyboard) to bring back a part of the image.
You should spend a lot of time making sure everything is meticulously erased
Once you are satisfied with your selection, find the frame on the Timeline (Animation window)
Select it and drag it to the trash
Press the spacebar to test your movie
On the Animation window, click the three lines under the ‘x’
Select ‘Optimize Animation’
Press ‘OK
Add adjustment layers! Give it cool effects!!!
Make sure to save your file as a .psd!!!!
You also need to save it in a different format so we can post it to the web
Go to File—>Save for Web
Click on the ‘4-Up’ option to see the different dither and color options. You can zoom in on certain parts.
Select the one that seems the clearest
Press save
Post it to your ‘Story’ page on the blog